AnswersNow provides a telehealth platform to help special needs children and their parents, particularly those on the autism spectrum.

The company was founded to make applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy for autism more accessible to families who otherwise wouldn’t be able to receive quality care.

Babbly’s AI-powered platform provides parents with real-time data on their baby’s development, starting with speech and language milestones.

Bark monitors children’s online activities for potential issues like cyberbullying, sexual predators, explicit sexual content, depression, acts of violence, and suicidal ideation.

Beam (formerly Edquity) provides a unified, end-to-end cash assistance platform that allows private and philanthropic institutions, non-profits, and governments to design applications, verify and process applicants, pay people quickly, track outcomes over time, and achieve social impact goals.

BioBot was founded at MIT by a biologist and an architect with the belief that sewage offers a unique opportunity to make public health more data-driven and effective. It believes that wastewater contains valuable information about the health of communities and by collecting it and analyzing it, it leads public officials to make better decisions about how to keep their residents safer.

Its first product—a monitor placed inside a sewer—measures opioids and other drug metabolites in sewage to estimate consumption in neighborhoods in an effort to establish harm reduction. Cary, North Carolina and Boston have been the cities where BioBot has done its most extensive work to date.

The company’s technology could also be used to discover whether there’s a spike in lead levels or whether a neighborhood is experiencing certain food deficiencies. It’s now working to help public health officials deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

BlocPower uses machine learning to provide energy efficiency retrofit recommendations to owners of small to medium-size buildings in the core of metropolitan areas in the United States.

These are offered in partnership with state and municipal governments that have legal mandates to reduce emissions. BlocPower believes it can reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2-3% in the next five years.

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After building a national children’s literacy nonprofit with a strong base of evidence, our founder launched BookNook out of the believe that only through technology can rigorous programs truly scale.

Following a small pilot in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2016, BookNook has quickly spread across hundreds of schools and after-school programs throughout dozens of states.

Cass is a company that focuses on the development of artificial intelligence-based coaches to provide mental health support, self-care/burnout prevention and professional coaching through texting on your cell phone.

Its mission is to provide affordable, quality mental health care, regardless of income or location and the company has given numerous people access to care for the first time in their lives.

It used to be known as X2AI.

CircleIn provides an easy-to-use studying app and website for college students, designed to bring them closer together, to solve difficult problems together, and to create an immersive learning experience.

CNote helps institutions invest capital into underserved communities at scale to help create an economy that works for everyone.

Elite Gaming Live provides eSports opportunities for kids grades 6-12 while including a STEM education component.

EnGen is a virtual English language instruction platform for immigrants, refugees, and workers with LEP who deserve self-sufficiency, economic mobility, civic participation, and a better quality of life.

Honeycomb Credit provides a crowdfunding investment platform for small “Main Street” businesses looking to grow, but who are too young or too small to qualify for traditional bank loans.

Ivy Energy provides access to renewable energy for renters and saves them 5-20% per month on their energy bills.

Kai XR offers a seamless convergence of our physical and digital lives, creating a unified, virtual community where we can work, play, relax, learn, transact and socialize.

Levered is closing the achievement gap in elementary math with a next-level blended learning system.

LoanSense helps people lower student loan bills by hundreds of dollars, sends reminders to make payments, and with personal advisors can help people achieve the dream of homeownership even with student debt.

Manatee provides digital mental health services to kids and their families.

MathTalk creates unique opportunities for young children and their families, particularly those in economically distressed communities, to discover and enjoy math anywhere.

Mentor Spaces is a virtual mentorship company for students and early-career Black and Latinx professionals that helps companies scale their diversity and inclusion efforts while advancing the careers of underrepresented minorities.

NurseDash is the first on-demand healthcare marketplace for facilities that need staffing support and clinicians looking for open shifts.

One Concern is a Palo Alto, California-based benevolent artificial intelligence company with a mission to save lives and livelihoods before, during, and after disasters. Its built a powerful platform enabling communities and companies to identify, quantify and manage their risk to natural disasters.

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Paladin envisions a world where everyone has access to legal and other vital services.

Statistics show more than 80% of people in America who need legal help don’t get it. Simultaneously, even as corporate law firms and other lawyers complete five million hours on pro bono work, a significant amount is spent on manual administrative work. Paladin’s platform streamlines the process connecting those in need of help with those who have the skills to help. Mark Cuban is a leading investor.

The justice tech company recently signed a deal with the American Bar Association, the largest trade organization for lawyers in the country, to create an online portal for lawyers to help people affected by COVID-19 and other natural disasters.

Pigeonly is a low-cost communication platform that makes it easy for people to support and connect with an incarcerated loved one.

Its mission is to improve communities by building products that reduce the destructive impact of incarceration. In addition to providing low-cost jail calls, families and their incarcerated relatives can easily share photos, letters, and more.

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Developed by educational researchers, Ready4K is an evidence-based family engagement curriculum delivered via text messages.

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Solstice believes affordable solar energy should be available to every American–even the 80% who cannot install it on a rooftop.

StormSensor was founded in 2015 by Erin Rothman with the goal of creating smarter urban watersheds. It provides a cloud-based stormwater monitoring platform designed to offer real-time data and insights to track how stormwater is flowing through systems including municipal sewers, private sewers, and commercial sites.

So, it’s basically like Google traffic maps for sewers. Sewers are society’s last unmetered utility with municipalities often not knowing how much water is in their system and how fast it’s moving. StormSensor works with major cities to identify where sewers overflow to prevent urban flooding.

Vincere Health is a Boston-based company looking to convince people to make healthier choices by giving them money to stop smoking.

Over time, its incentive-based program aspires to be a platform that addresses the full range of known problems and behaviors associated with chronic cardiovascular disease (e.g. obesity, lack of medication adherence, limited exercise and fitness).